A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; warps and wefts twice dip-dyed, once to produce the red and again for purple.

Shoulder Cloth (kain selendang songket)

c. 1900

Indonesia, South Sumatra, Palembang area

Indonesia

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; warps and wefts twice dip-dyed, once to produce the red and again for purple

Textiles